The National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA) advocates federal policies and programs to promote healthy eating and physical activity to help reduce the illnesses, disabilities, premature deaths, and costs caused by diet and inactivity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.
After a decade of national, state and local advocacy to improve the quality of school foods, the NANA coalition led the effort to pass the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a bill to improve and reauthorize the child nutrition programs. It includes a provision to get unhealthy foods and beverages out of vending machines, a la carte lines and other school venues. The passage of this historic legislation provides over 31 million American children with greater access to healthy school food. President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act into law on December 13, 2010.
